![]() ![]() It would be hard enough just to watch Amethyst getting her ass kicked this badly, as we’ve already gotten so much subtext about how her warrior instincts clash with her relatively weak body. In the wrong hands, Jasper’s speech could have been gilding the lily, because in essence she’s repeating what we already know. Too Far revealed that amethysts are designed to be mighty quartz soldiers and that Amethyst doesn’t fit the bill, but Jasper dials up that insecurity with a physical and verbal beatdown. We don’t know the extent of Jasper’s physical perfection yet, but we do know Amethyst came out small, and the first we heard of it was from Jasper calling her a “puny overcooked runt”. Jasper is linked with Lapis Lazuli, and was presented as a counterpart to Garnet in The Return and Jailbreak, but this arc is defined by a heretofore unmentioned similarity with Amethyst. ![]() Amethyst is stubborn, but unlike Jasper, she’s part of a team: her instinct is to protect her friends, and her inferiority complex explodes when she’s instead protected by them. Yes, the kids are important and learn an important lesson, but the entirety of Crack the Whip is preparing us for Amethyst’s arc, to the point where it shows and tells us the conclusion before it even begins: Amethyst is nothing like Jasper, and that’s okay.Īmethyst loves fighting, but unlike Jasper, it’s not an obsession: I’m sure that if Jasper was an ally she would be all in on watching Steven and Connie spar, but Amethyst quickly gets bored and repeats an earlier offer to bail. Amethyst is selfish, but unlike Jasper, she likes other people: she could’ve left Steven and Connie to it and gone off on her own, but she wants them to share in her hedonism. Like the conclusion of Rose’s Scabbard, where Steven’s smile of relief contrasts Pearl’s weariness, we get a cut-to-black ending that the kids think merits a star iris.īut we don’t get that iris, because this has been an Amethyst episode the whole time. Connie resolves her feelings of inadequacy, and the day is saved. They rescue the Corrupted Gem from Jasper and force a retreat into the ocean, then go over the lesson by acknowledging how Amethyst’s philosophy helped them. Amethyst presents a different perspective that allows Connie to relax and let go of her lingering self-doubt, and so much time is devoted to this that it seems like that’s going to be our lesson: the importance of balancing work with fun.Īnd for Steven and Connie, it is! They form Stevonnie and give us an amazing action sequence (complete with both sword and shield and a joust atop Lion) because they’re able to be loose and instinctive. Garnet and Pearl heading out to find Jasper and Connie still bummed about freezing up in her first mission despite Steven and Pearl’s praise, but we still get clear Hangout Episode vibes until the third act. ![]() Like Gem Hunt, this appears at first to be a very different episode than what it becomes thanks to a surprise appearance from Jasper. We’ve had additional table-setting in Too Short to Ride detailing her ability to help a Homeworlder with similar body issues, but now another Homeworlder (soon revealed to be another Earthling) is here to reinforce how much easier it is for Amethyst to help others than herself. Unlike her teammates, Amethyst gets an honest-to-goodness focus arc with multiple consecutive episodes about overcoming a blow to her already low self-esteem. Greg, does this late-blooming Gem finally have time to blossom. But only now, well after Log Date 7 15 2 and Mr. Amethyst was the first of the three to begin her arc, and if we’re talking big picture, Tiger Millionaire was only the ninth episode of the series and was the first to show a Gem with a concrete problem unrelated to Steven. They each get an episode establishing their problem, some focus on their problem in the Week of Sardonyx, an adventure with Peridot about their problem, and resolution with Steven (Garnet does the last two in reverse). Way back in Reformed, I wrote about the arcs that Garnet and Amethyst and Pearl undergo over the course of Season 2 and 3. ![]()
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